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Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Enter into a Citywide Project Stabilization Agreement on Public Works or Improvement Contracts Valued at Over $1,000,000 Awarded by the City of Alameda with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County. (Base Reuse 819099)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Enter into a Citywide Project Stabilization Agreement on Public Works or Improvement Contracts Valued at Over $1,000,000 Awarded by the City of Alameda with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County
BACKGROUND
Over the last six years, the City Council on multiple occasions has discussed and directed staff to negotiate a project stabilization agreement (PSA) with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County (BTC). The BTC is the labor group that represents construction workers in the geographic area which includes the City of Alameda. This evening staff is recommending a Citywide PSA on public works or improvements contracts valued over $1,000,000 awarded by the City of Alameda. The overall purpose of a Citywide PSA is to ensure that construction projects contracted out by the City have an adequate supply of qualified, skilled craft workers working under uniform work rules. In addition, a PSA can mitigate the risk of labor disruptions that would adversely affect the construction progress and timely completion of a given project.
PSAs and other related agreements, such as Project Labor Agreements and Community Benefit Agreements, are agreements negotiated between a public entity, developer, or general contractor, and the building trades unions, in this case represented by the BTC. A public entity can require a contractor to agree to utilize a PSA as a condition of entering into a construction contract for a public work with the public entity. Typically, PSAs contain the following ...
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